The West Second Street Historic District is located along a primary commercial street in

Ashland, Wisconsin Ashland is a city in Ashland and Bayfield counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the county seat of Ashland County. The city is a port on Lake Superior, near the head of Chequamegon Bay. The population was 7,908 at the 2020 census, al ...

, and is listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

. West Second Street was later renamed Main Street West. There are 45 contributing commercial buildings built from 1884 to 1937. There is a variety of architectural styles represented by the contributing buildings, such as the

Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...

design of the Old Ashland Post Office, or the Neoclassical design of the Ashland County Courthouse, or the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

design of the Bay Theater. with Today, the district continues to be an important center of

commerce Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions directly and indirectly related to the exchange (buying and selling) of goods and services among two or more parties within local, regional, nation ...

for the community. Many buildings still serve the same purpose they were built for, such as the Vaughn Public Library, and the Courthouse. Other buildings have been repurposed, such as the Security Savings Bank, while some are awaiting redevelopment, such as the Royal Theatre, and the Grand Opera House. There is another Historic District listed on the ''National Register of Historic Places'' in Ashland, the Chapple and MacArthur Avenues Residential Historic District. Ashland has a local register of historic properties, which identifies buildings that are significant to local history.

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City of Ashland Website
{{Registered Historic Places Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Ashland County, Wisconsin

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